At the Army base outside Savannah, Georgia, Elisabeth was soon found murdered.She was staked down with tent pegs and ropes, spread-eagled, mock-raped (there was no semen found and after tests, no sign of rape), and strangled in the middle of a training compound field for urban warfare training.It told about a sexual murderous assault (and its scandalous corrupt and "lunatic" underworld within a military base).Although the film commented upon the gender inequalities in the military, it was also criticized for leering at the female victim when she was gang-raped by trainees dressed in camouflage, and the horrific image of the murdered victim laid out and then decomposing was often revisited during the film.In this film her husband died 18 months ago in a car wreck. That same wreck has left her son in a wheelchair but it will be "A Christmas Miracle if he ever walks again". Although Nick is a handsome, successful New York City business consultant, Mia finds training him frustrating until Nick takes an interest in Mia's son Scotty (Sean Michael Kyer, "Girl in Progress," "The Color of Rain"), helping Scotty with a pumpkin carving contest.However, Mia's faith in Nick quickly diminishes when Nick fails to show up at the contest.

Mia, who works for Sean, helps Owen get settled into his ...Martha nurses her old father and usually gives a lift to Kyle, who works also in the night-shift cleaning a shovel factory.When the young single mother Rose is hired to work with airbrush and stencils in the factory, she is befriended by Kyle and Martha.During the initial investigation, Brenner met with the base's Provost Marshal Colonel William Kent (Timothy Hutton) and the general's overprotective adjutant Colonel George Fowler (Clarence Williams III).Brenner curtly summarized the motives for murder to Sunhill: The CID officers had 36 hours to investigate before the FBI entered the case with a task force, when the media would make the death "a goddamn circus." Brenner was cautioned by Fowler to do things "the Army way" - not "the right way or the wrong way." Soon, secrets about the daughter's dark sexual past were revealed.